Ed Bye Red Nose Day

[Jonsmad]

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[hummingbird]

I don’t suppose there’s any hope of the boys doing a bit for Comic Relief?
No? Thought not. *sigh*

Still, only 4 weeks to go.
Or should that be: ONLY 4 WEEKS TO GO !!!!!!

[James]

You can’t have failed to have seen Ruby Wax as well. BOGOF.

[John Hoare]

This was surprisingly not a complete disaster.

[Pete Part Three]

The whole night itself or the French and Saunders bit, specifically?

[ChrisM]

I quite liked the war sketches. And The Apprentice. The rest… not so much.

I’ve never been into French and Saunders. I’ve seen them in separate stuff I’ve rather liked, but F&S…. apart from the odd chuckle here and there never really did it for me.

[si]

I thought the night was great. A couple of things fell flat (Katy Brand, Kate Moss and co, I’m looking at you; and you all know what I think of R***y G*****s), but Smithy and the England team was good, and I thought there were some nice stuff scattered through the night.

[Tarka Dal]

The fat one from Horden and Corne or Corne and Horden or whatever it is. He made me laugh. When he picked on Frank Lampard suggested Gerrard was a better player and the shouted at him to pass it to him once in a while. I would have liked his reference to World in Motion too, but it was poorly delivered.

[ChrisM]

I forgot that sketch! I liked that too, although a lot of the jokes passed me by due to being in the Mos and Roy camp in my appreciation of football. Funny stuff.

[Pete Part Three]

Just watched it on You Tube. Can’t stand Corden and thought it was overlong and hindered by the way that the players just sat there like lemons. The joke was that he saying stuff that is discussed in pubs across the land, but directing it towards the people involved. That’s it. Nothing actually funny on its own merit.

That said, it was exponentially better than the “Outnumbered” sketches that I saw on the night. I’ve never seen the show and I never will after that.

[John Hoare]

The whole night itself or the French and Saunders bit, specifically?

F&S specifically. I thought some of the comedy sketches in general were quite good, if not spectacular – after Harry and Paul, I really didn’t think I’d like Victorian Dragon’s Den stuff, but it was great. And Mitchell/Armstrong/Webb/Miller was all fantastic.

The studio stuff… the odd good bit, but damn, it didn’t feel special in the slightest, did it? No sense of a special event. And it comes to something when bloody Catherine Tate comes in and plays off the audience better than anyone else all evening.

[pfm]

> And it comes to something when bloody Catherine Tate comes in and plays off the audience better than anyone else all evening.

Correct. At one point I was sat in utter disbelieving silence watching Fern Britton talking to me like a 5-year-old even though it’s 23:30. Even Horne and Corden being on earlier would easily have been preferable to the nothing that we got after the news. Whoever thought of pairing Fern with Alan Carr wants to be told to clear their desk, not even a painting of a Spitfire, just get out. Carr would have been good with someone else, but Fern..? Just why, by the Christ, why?

Even though I, like most, have a certain loathing for Davina McCall, she and David Tennant seemed to make a decent presenting partnership. Btw is there anything Tennant can’t do? He’s such a lanky streak of good-looking (not to me, but to some, you know, women) bastardness.

[ChrisM]

Tenant and McCall were ok, but their presentation felt a bit clunky to me. To be fair though Tenant stated “I’m not a presenter.”

I so miss the old days when you had a bunch of comedians and other funny people behind that long table…

Lennie Henry was always a lot of fun. He is mostly concentrating on the Africa side now, which is fair enough, but I miss him.

[Dave]

>Btw is there anything Tennant can?t do?

He’s embarrasingly bad at origami

[Ben Paddon]

His theories appall me, his heresies outrage me, he never answer letters and I don’t like his tie.

[hummingbird]

> Lennie Henry was always a lot of fun. He is mostly concentrating on the Africa side now, which is fair enough, but I miss him.

Isn’t it just that he’s not perceived as being ‘fashionable’ these days?
Unlike Alan Carr, Ten, Catherine Tate, etc

[Tarka Dal]

It’s the same with the Comic Relief single. Richard Curtis has stated that they go for whoever is famous at the time because they believe that will trigger more sales than a comedy novelty single.

Is it fact that they raised more money than ever before this year? If so I guess you can’t really argue with the formula in terms of what’s most important – raising cash.

Of course we can still moan that it’s not as funny as it used to be, but then it’s been that way since the Mid-90s.

[ChrisM]

>Isn?t it just that he?s not perceived as being ?fashionable? these days?

Quite possibly. Which is a shame. Not that I dislike:

>Unlike Alan Carr, Ten, Catherine Tate, etc

I actually rather like Alan Carr. And I don’t dislike Catherine Tate, although I find her show repetitive (rather like Little Britain in that respect.)

Is it fact that they raised more money than ever before this year? If so I guess you can?t really argue with the formula in terms of what?s most important – raising cash.

That’s a good point too though.

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